A Post About My Reading

        Hi!  Posting about books because... they're there to post about.
        Anyway, today at school I made a list of things I wanted to do this weekend.  It wasn't a super long list, maybe 12 things, including:

"Finish Billy Budd."

"Read more Harry Potter."

"Read Sammy Keyes."

"Finish Crossed, despite my fear of it almost being over."

"Start reading The Fault in Our Stars, despite how I know I will bawl my eyes out and am sort of afraid of that."

        This often happens, where I have quite a few books to read - I have many more that I've started, but will need to start over because I got halfway through before starting another, and can't remember anything.  That's why I'm re-reading most of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince right now.  Really, I was mostly done with it.  But Dumbledore is funny, so it's fine with me to go back.  

        It also often happens that I put off the ending of a book for too long, because I don't want the story to be over.  Also because the ending to Matched made me cry, and I have a fear of crying over books when my family is around. o.O Even though... I've never cried from a book while they were around.  But still partially why I'm sure I'll really like TFiOS, but am afraid of reading it.  I know that there is going to be seriously devastating stuff in there.

        Billy Budd is one of the strangest books I've read, because the author is talking to me with his own voice, and through "indirection".  Books nowadays don't really go into a long back story.  It mostly seems like we just learn about a character's past through their behaviours as we read or it just comes out from them telling others or having flashbacks.  I doubt any modern novel or novella goes into several chapters that have nothing to do directly with any of the characters, or any of the story. 

        I've been a fan of the Sammy Keyes series since elementary school.  I remember teaching myself to remember Wendelin Van Draanen's name in seventh grade, because I was obsessed. Sammy has aged very, very slowly.  I think she may have been in seventh grade in the first book, but is now, in Sammy Keyes and the Wedding Crasher, she is just entering eighth grade.  When I told my dad about how much I love this series, he tried to listen to the book on tape of the first one, and couldn't get over how childish it was.  I notice the childish-ness a lot more now than I used to, but that's what I get for liking books from the juvenile section at the library. :-)  No matter how juvenile, I swear by the fact that I laughed SO HARD at Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things that I know Sammy is one funny girl.  And besides, I have to follow her and Casey, battling away the Acosta Octopus anyway. 

        And now that I've written a few disorganized thoughts about what I'm reading right now, what are you reading?  Aaaaand... what's your favorite book? :-) 

        DFTBA, and hopefully you can still find some signed copies of TFiOS if you haven't already got your (perfectly wonderful, purple Sharpie signed) copy!